TNAG-1827-FCO40-2595-Mutual-legal-assistance-between-Hong-Kong-and-the-UK-and-USA-1988 — Page 105

CODE 18-77

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Reference....

HKD 371/1

FIL

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Miss S Morton

FED K267

HUD 371/1

MUTUAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE AGREEMENT WITH THE PRC

1. Please refer to Ms Major's minute of 18 March and Mr Fifoot's of 23 March. You will be receiving separately a copy of a teleletter I am sending to Hong Kong, as suggested in Paragraph 4 of Mr Fifoot's minute. I shall let you know the response from Hong Kong in due course. (Hong Kong have not commented on my minute of 12 January to Mr Fletcher-Cooke)

2. For the present, there is nothing more I can add to earlier exchanges on the Hong Kong aspects of this question.

28 March 1988

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Mr Fifoot ) Mr Grainger)

Legal Advisers

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enan

C T Wood

Hong Kong Department 270 2655

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